crime class

• in 2022, over 5 million offences were recorded in England and Wales. However sociologists suggest that this statistic is not entirely accurate as it doesnt represented the 'dark/hidden figure' of unrecorded crime.

  A large portion of crimes that often go unrecorded are those committed by professionalss in the corporate sector & in high positons. This is beacuse they are dealth with privately or leniently if done so by the legal system.
• Functionalism: status frustration & strain theory
• According to Marxist sociologists, all social classes commit crimes, but elite and corporate crimes are more harmful than the others and yet are still less likely to get punished. Marxism also argues that crimes committed by the working-class result from criminogenic capitalism.
• Interactionalism: society labels the groups and view their behaviours as deviant as a result. Cicourel: suggests the beliefs and opinions of the police & juvinile officers explain why most delinquents belong to the working class.